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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

“All of this is
simple, really. If we keep pissing in the public education pool, don’t be surprised
when no one wants to swim in it.”

Let’s face it, the education system is not
perfect and it will never be. As a society, we should be constantly trying to
improve our education system. It will never be perfect because technology and
society is constantly evolving.

Knowing this, we need to stop tearing
education down. Yes, there are flaws but like teaching in the classroom, we
need to fix the problems and move on. Society needs to stop allowing education
to be used as a pawn in the political atmosphere. We should not be playing
games with our children’s future.

We need to start focusing on the positives and
sharing them with as many others as we can so they can replicate and hopefully
achieve the same successes.

We need to start supporting teachers in the
areas of their needs instead of tearing them down and pointing out all of the
things they lack. If they lack something, then society needs to figure out how
to get them what is needed for them to accomplish the goals needed to help our
children succeed.

We need to make sure that all school have the
adequate materials and supplies rather than arguing about who should get what
and the equality of everything. We need to move past the arguing and get on
with the action.

We need to stop allowing for incompetence and
ineffectiveness out of fear of litigation. These people are giving all
educators a bad name and getting all of the attention when they are actually a
minority group.

But most of all, we need to stop letting
people who are not even in education make decisions for people who are trained
educators and have experience in the classroom. I would not want a brick layer
making decisions for my dentist in order to work on my teeth.

What do you feel we should be doing to build
up our education system instead of tearing it down? Please share.